Oil WAR...just a matter of time

[RevDisk]

There won't be any 'armed conflict'.  We'll just bend over, take it up to the hilt, and pay whatever it costs, all the while whining and complaining like the wusses we are.

What happened to free market capitalism?  Producers willing to charge what they will, and letting the market price itself?

Out of curiousity, RileyMc, what would you see as the prefered solution?

[Chuck Jennings]

Oil wars are certainly possible, but I think we will be likely to have a war over water resources before that.

[Paddy]

What happened to free market capitalism?

It doesn't exist.  Governments, especially the U.S. government have involved themselves in manipulating the minutia of commerce for a long time.

Out of curiousity, RileyMc, what would you see as the prefered solution?

Break up and disband the cozy relationship between government and the corporations who control government for their own protection.  Get government out of business and business out of government.  Reverse the Supreme Court decision that recognizes a corporation as a person.  That's a start.

[RevDisk]

It doesn't exist.  Governments, especially the U.S. government have involved themselves in manipulating the minutia of commerce for a long time.

Break up and disband the cozy relationship between government and the corporations who control government for their own protection.  Get government out of business and business out of government.  Reverse the Supreme Court decision that recognizes a corporation as a person.  That's a start.

Bingo.

I don't see it happening voluntarily.  Government and corporations are too much in bed with each other.  A lot of money changes hands.  Neither Democrats nor Republicans have any desire to reform the system that is so profitable to them.